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Cece Penison accuses Lizzo of cribbing from ‘Finally’: “It’s not just an ad-lib, it’s a check”
The iconic house vocalist shared clips from the respective songs side-by-side in an Instagram post.
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Cece Penison accuses Lizzo of cribbing from ‘Finally’: “It’s not just an ad-lib, it’s a check”
“btw I love her music”, Peniston wrote on Instagram.
Dance music vocalist CeCe Peniston has accused Lizzo of copyright infringement.
This past Friday (October 18) Peniston posted a video on her Instagram account directly comparing the music video for her dance classic ‘Finally’ to a recent advertisement for alcohol brand Absolut vodka, which features the singer and rapper’s single from this year, ‘Juice’. Each clip focuses on its respective artist’s “ya ya” ad-lib, with which Peniston is specifically taking issue.
In another post, she again tagged Lizzo, writing, “Just for the record and so you understand … anytime anybody uses a song over 7 seconds that’s using a ‘portion’ of their copyright, Lizzo not only takes over that , she’s used several times adding up to about 40 seconds, it’s my lyric it’s written down as well, it’s the signature to the opening in my song #finally and all commercials are using it from the ‘Adlib’ section because they know it’s catchy sooo #notjustanadlib it’s a check!!!!”
Reactions on Instagram to the accusations go both ways, but singer India Arie weighed in for herself, stating that she thought Peniston had been paid for what she saw as a direct interpolation of ‘Finally’: “I hate that ANY one would not automatically KNOW this IS a signature of yours. Clearly. But as musicians I guess we hear it more clearly.”
Released in 1991, ‘Finally’ is regarded as a house music classic. It was Peniston’s first single as well as her most successful, spending 33 weeks on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart and peaking at No. 5. ‘Finally’ has been sampled by artists ranging from Travis Scott and DJ Mustard to Girl Talk to DJ Earl. Last month, Peniston performed it as part of a house music medley for BET’s Black Girls Rock!
Peniston’s claims are the latest in a stream of accusations directed at Lizzo. Last week, songwriter and producer Justin Raisen posted a similar side-by-side video comparing Lizzo’s ‘Truth Hurts’ to a demo, ‘Healthy’, that he claims he wrote with the singer/rapper in 2017. Raisen claimed that ‘Truth Hurts’ copies parts of the lyrics, melody and chords from ‘Healthy’. In that post, he also confirmed singer Mina Lioness’ previous claims that Lizzo took her oft-quoted opening line from ‘Truth Hurts’ (“I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100 percent that bitch”) from one of her tweets.
Lizzo’s lawyer, Cynthia Arato, recently issued a statement denying Raisen’s claims: “Although it has become all too commonplace for successful artists to be subjected to these type of opportunistic claims, it is nevertheless disappointing that after all of her hard work, Lizzo has to respond to this specious claim.”
“btw I love her music”, Peniston wrote on Instagram.
Dance music vocalist CeCe Peniston has accused Lizzo of copyright infringement.
This past Friday (October 18) Peniston posted a video on her Instagram account directly comparing the music video for her dance classic ‘Finally’ to a recent advertisement for alcohol brand Absolut vodka, which features the singer and rapper’s single from this year, ‘Juice’. Each clip focuses on its respective artist’s “ya ya” ad-lib, with which Peniston is specifically taking issue.
In another post, she again tagged Lizzo, writing, “Just for the record and so you understand … anytime anybody uses a song over 7 seconds that’s using a ‘portion’ of their copyright, Lizzo not only takes over that , she’s used several times adding up to about 40 seconds, it’s my lyric it’s written down as well, it’s the signature to the opening in my song #finally and all commercials are using it from the ‘Adlib’ section because they know it’s catchy sooo #notjustanadlib it’s a check!!!!”
Reactions on Instagram to the accusations go both ways, but singer India Arie weighed in for herself, stating that she thought Peniston had been paid for what she saw as a direct interpolation of ‘Finally’: “I hate that ANY one would not automatically KNOW this IS a signature of yours. Clearly. But as musicians I guess we hear it more clearly.”
Released in 1991, ‘Finally’ is regarded as a house music classic. It was Peniston’s first single as well as her most successful, spending 33 weeks on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart and peaking at No. 5. ‘Finally’ has been sampled by artists ranging from Travis Scott and DJ Mustard to Girl Talk to DJ Earl. Last month, Peniston performed it as part of a house music medley for BET’s Black Girls Rock!
Peniston’s claims are the latest in a stream of accusations directed at Lizzo. Last week, songwriter and producer Justin Raisen posted a similar side-by-side video comparing Lizzo’s ‘Truth Hurts’ to a demo, ‘Healthy’, that he claims he wrote with the singer/rapper in 2017. Raisen claimed that ‘Truth Hurts’ copies parts of the lyrics, melody and chords from ‘Healthy’. In that post, he also confirmed singer Mina Lioness’ previous claims that Lizzo took her oft-quoted opening line from ‘Truth Hurts’ (“I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100 percent that bitch”) from one of her tweets.
Lizzo’s lawyer, Cynthia Arato, recently issued a statement denying Raisen’s claims: “Although it has become all too commonplace for successful artists to be subjected to these type of opportunistic claims, it is nevertheless disappointing that after all of her hard work, Lizzo has to respond to this specious claim.”
Lizzo accused of plaigarism by Cece Peniston over “Juice”
This isn’t the first time Lizzo has been accused of copying work.
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Peniston claims Lizzo uses ad-libs from her 1992 hit.
Another artist has leveled accusations at Lizzo over one of her hit songs. This time around, CeCe Peniston claims Lizzo’s “Juice” uses ad-libs from Peniston’s early ‘90s hit, “Finally.”
Peniston shared an Instagram video comparing the two songs:
“This is a clear example of #copyrightinfringement,” she wrote in the caption. “Cece Peniston versus @lizzobeeating y’all check this out and btw I love her music.”
In an earlier Instagram post, Peniston referenced a recent New York Times interview in which a pair of Lizzo’s former collaborators accused the Minneapolis singer of denying them songwriting credit on her No. 1 hit, “Truth Hurts.” Peniston then explained why she believes there is copyright infringement:
The ad-libs referenced by Peniston are on the chorus of “Juice,” when Lizzo sings:
Although “Juice” hasn’t achieved the same level of success as Lizzo’s more well-known hit, the track still reached No. 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 last month—thanks in part to its placement in the Absolut Vodka commercial shown in Peniston’s Instagram video.
Meanwhile, “Finally” remains Peniston’s biggest hit to date after peaking at No. 5 on the Hot 100 in January 1992. Released ahead of her first album of the same name, it established Peniston as a force on the chart, where she landed eight more hits over the next five years.
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